Night sky tonight in Bucharest: Moon, planets and dark hours

Tonight at a glance

Sun and twilight

Sunset: 17:13
Civil twilight ends: 17:43
Nautical twilight ends: 18:17
Astronomical darkness: 18:51 – 05:08
Sunrise: 06:45

The Moon

99%

Waning Gibbous

Moonrise: 16:58
Moonset: 08:24 (+1)
Moon-free darkness: none

Times between local noon today and noon tomorrow; (+1) means after midnight.

Dark-sky tip

A bright Moon tonight. Its light hides the Milky Way and fainter meteors. Use it instead: binoculars on the line between light and dark show craters in sharp relief.

Let the sky turn. The stars rise about four minutes earlier each night, so a constellation you see at 22:00 now will be in the same place at 20:00 in a month. If something is too low tonight, wait an hour or come back in a few weeks.

Tonight hour by hour

Day Civil twilight Nautical Astronomical Full dark · bars show when each body is above the horizon

Planets tonight

Mars

Morning: rises around 00:30 in the east-northeast, best near 06:14, 61° up in the south-southeast.

Magnitude +0.9 · in Cancer · 77° from the Sun

Jupiter

Morning: rises around 01:15 in the east-northeast, best near 06:14, 55° up in the southeast.

Magnitude −2.0 · in Leo · 69° from the Sun

Saturn

Evening: from 17:45 low in the east-southeast, sets around 04:09 in the west.

Magnitude +0.4 · in Cetus · 157° from the Sun

Uranus binoculars

Morning: rises around 20:10 in the east-northeast, best near 02:04, 67° up in the south.

Magnitude +5.6 · in Taurus · 148° from the Sun

Neptune binoculars

Evening: from 18:34 low in the east-southeast until 02:35.

Magnitude +7.7 · in Pisces · 150° from the Sun

"Visible" means at least 5° above the horizon (15° for Uranus and Neptune) while the Sun is more than 6° below it. Directions: N, NE, E… are compass points along the horizon.

Visible ISS passes this week

Date	Appears	Highest	Disappears	Visible for
Tue 27 Oct	05:06 N	26° N	05:09 ENE	3.6 min
Wed 28 Oct	04:20 NE	18° NE	04:22 ENE	1.4 min
Wed 28 Oct	05:53 NW	48° NNE	05:59 E	6.3 min
Thu 29 Oct	05:08 NNW	36° NNE	05:12 E	4.1 min
Fri 30 Oct	04:22 NE	22° NE	04:24 ENE	1.7 min
Fri 30 Oct	05:55 WNW	75° SSW	06:01 SE	6.1 min
Sat 31 Oct	05:10 NNW	70° NE	05:14 ESE	4.0 min
Sun 1 Nov	04:24 E	26° E	04:26 E	1.7 min
Sun 1 Nov	05:57 W	28° SW	06:02 SSE	5.0 min
Mon 2 Nov	05:12 SSW	46° SSW	05:15 SE	3.2 min

The International Space Station looks like a bright, steady star moving across the sky in a few minutes. Passes are computed from the latest orbital elements (epoch 2026-10-25); the station's orbit is adjusted from time to time, so a pass can shift by a minute or more. It may also fade suddenly when it enters Earth's shadow.

The next 7 nights

Night of	Sunset	Dark	Moon	Moonrise / set	Moon-free dark	Planets
Tue 27 Oct	17:12	18:49–05:09	96%	↑17:32 ↓09:45	—	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Wed 28 Oct	17:10	18:48–05:10	90%	↑18:17 ↓11:00	—	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Thu 29 Oct	17:09	18:47–05:11	81%	↑19:15	30 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Fri 30 Oct	17:07	18:45–05:13	72%	↑20:26 ↓12:02	1 h 40 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sat 31 Oct	17:06	18:44–05:14	61%	↑21:43 ↓12:51	3 h 05 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Sun 1 Nov	17:05	18:43–05:15	49%	↑23:02 ↓13:28	4 h 20 min	Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Mon 2 Nov	17:03	18:42–05:16	38%	↑00:19 ↓13:57	5 h 40 min	Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Moon calendar for October 2026 in Bucharest

1 Thu 74% ↑21:23 ↓13:03

2 Fri 64% ↑22:24 ↓14:11

3 Sat 52% ↑23:35 ↓15:08

4 Sun 41% ↓15:52

5 Mon 30% ↑00:53 ↓16:26

6 Tue 20% ↑02:12 ↓16:53

7 Wed 12% ↑03:28 ↓17:15

8 Thu 6% ↑04:42 ↓17:35

9 Fri 2% ↑05:54 ↓17:54

10 Sat 0% ↑07:05 ↓18:14

11 Sun 1% ↑08:16 ↓18:35

12 Mon 3% ↑09:26 ↓19:00

13 Tue 8% ↑10:35 ↓19:29

14 Wed 14% ↑11:41 ↓20:06

15 Thu 21% ↑12:42 ↓20:50

16 Fri 29% ↑13:35 ↓21:43

17 Sat 38% ↑14:19 ↓22:42

18 Sun 47% ↑14:55 ↓23:47

19 Mon 57% ↑15:24

20 Tue 66% ↑15:49 ↓00:53

21 Wed 75% ↑16:10 ↓02:01

22 Thu 83% ↑16:29 ↓03:09

23 Fri 90% ↑16:48 ↓04:18

24 Sat 96% ↑17:08 ↓05:30

25 Sun 99% ↑16:30 ↓05:44

26 Mon 100% ↑16:58 ↓07:03

27 Tue 98% ↑17:32 ↓08:24

28 Wed 93% ↑18:17 ↓09:45

29 Thu 86% ↑19:15 ↓11:00

30 Fri 77% ↑20:26 ↓12:02

31 Sat 66% ↑21:43 ↓12:51

Illumination at local noon; ↑ moonrise, ↓ moonset, local time. Phase dates for the whole world: Moon phases October 2026.

Planets this month from Bucharest

Planet	Thu 1 Oct	Thu 15 Oct	Sat 31 Oct
Mercury	not visible	not visible	not visible
Venus	not visible	not visible	not visible
Mars	Morning, from 02:00	Morning, from 01:45	Morning, from 00:24
Jupiter	Morning, from 03:30	Morning, from 02:50	Morning, from 00:55
Saturn	19:45–06:45	Evening, sets 05:55	Evening, sets 03:45

Coming meteor showers

Southern Taurids

Peak Thursday 5 November 2026, 20:54 local

Best on the night of Thu 5 Nov around 00:30, when the radiant is 60° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 6 meteors an hour.

Moon 12% at peak

Northern Taurids

Peak Thursday 12 November 2026, 20:08 local

Best on the night of Thu 12 Nov around 00:30, when the radiant is 67° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 5 meteors an hour.

Moon 11% at peak

Leonids

Peak Wednesday 18 November 2026, 01:43 local

Best on the night of Tue 17 Nov around 06:00, when the radiant is 66° up. Under a dark sky expect up to about 14 meteors an hour, fewer this year because the Moon is 55% lit.

Moon 55% at peak

Rate = the shower's zenithal hourly rate × the sine of the radiant's altitude. Real counts are lower from towns and with moonlight; treat this as an upper guide.

Eclipses seen from Bucharest

Penumbral lunar eclipse, 20 February 2027: the Moon is 53° up at greatest eclipse.
Total solar eclipse, 2 August 2027: partial, 0.6 of the Sun's diameter covered (51% of its area), maximum around 09:32 UTC, Sun 61° up.
Partial lunar eclipse, 12 January 2028: the Moon is 17° up at greatest eclipse.
Partial lunar eclipse, 6 July 2028: the Moon is 2° up at greatest eclipse.
Total lunar eclipse, 31 December 2028: the Moon is 21° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
Total lunar eclipse, 20 December 2029: the Moon is 68° up at greatest eclipse; 100% of totality is above the horizon.
Annular solar eclipse, 1 June 2030: partial, 0.89 of the Sun's diameter covered (83% of its area), maximum around 05:09 UTC, Sun 25° up.
Partial lunar eclipse, 15 June 2030: the Moon is 5° up at greatest eclipse.
Penumbral lunar eclipse, 9 December 2030: the Moon is 67° up at greatest eclipse.

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